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Professional Development Policy Seminar for Health Scientists
Report of a Professional Development Policy Seminar for health Scientists held on 3 May 2012. Run in partnership with the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) and the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (IPH).
CSaP launches search for new Executive Director
The Centre for Science and Policy is looking for a new Executive Director to lead the Centre through an exciting period in its development.
Chris Tyler to become new Head of POST
Executive Director Dr Chris Tyler is set to leave CSaP at the end of May to become Head of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
Nanotechnology and your views
What are the implications of nanotechnology for the general public? What use is it to them? What are the risks and benefits? These are the types of questions that an online Knowledge Debate hopes to provoke. Dr Robert Doubleday, Head ...
Risk and Uncertainty Conference
On 8 March – the very day that the BBC declared that solar storms threatened to “wreak havoc with satellites or power grids” – many of the UK’s top risk experts were attending the CSaP conference on Risk and Uncertainty, organised in partnership with the Willis Research Network and sponsored by the IET and Lloyd’s.
Policy makers and scientists collaborate to create new science-policy research agenda
The importance of science in public policy has long been recognised, however there is growing debate over how this is best achieved.
Policy Fellows announced for Easter Term 2012
The Centre has announced the first group of Policy Fellows for the Easter Term 2012, together with the dates of their initial visits to Cambridge in April, May and June.
Innovation management by global health entrepreneurs
This report was prepared by Sian Loveless. Worldwide there are 5000 deaths per day from Tuberculosis (TB), a disease that has been preventable through vaccination for 100 years, and that is treatable with antibiotics. Most of these deaths occur in ...
The Intelligence Stairway - why the future might not need us
Overly intelligent computers and robots could cause an ecological catastrophe marking the end of human existence. Not the plot of a science fiction film, but the warning delivered by Jaan Tallinn about the dangers of unmitigated technological advances in Artifial Intelligence, in the first CSaP Distinguished Lecture of 2012.
Monitoring volcanic gas emissions: From innovation to operational application
Report prepared by Tim Middleton. This Cambridge Public Policy Seminar was given by Dr Clive Oppenheimer, Reader in Volcanology and Remote Sensing in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University and head of the Cambridge Volcanology Group, on 3 February ...
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